Truth be told, when I arrived on the rooftop of Hotel Deluxe's parking lot, I was more enthralled with the sights and sounds of being up so high rather than the tunes. That not to say Eskimo and Sons didn't put on a captivating show, just that the uniqueness of the gig overcame me. I soon stepp...
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How is Backspace for playing board games? Dave Depper, multi-instrumentalist for many and LocalCut guinea pig extraordinaire, dared to join me at the coffee shop/gamer haven to find out. After a quick pit-stop at Finnegan's to pick up the Milton Bradley game, I stared him down from across ...
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Sitting in the lap of luxury at the Ace Hotel, Nathan Howdeshell (aka Brace Paine) and I got together for a chat. With a pair of pugs trying desperately to climb into our laps, we spoke about his club night Situations. If you read the Situations profile in the paper this week, you're already hip ...
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Mother's Day comes early! Or, actually, three months late, depending on how you look at it. But guess what? Today my mom is offering her opinions on the new live track by Atole! Recorded live at the practice space Hotel, "Baby Jam" and another one, "Plock," are available ...
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He could introduce himself to you as his given name Jay Bozich, "Grumpy Jay" or even "Brother Jay," but for the purposes of this here column, he's King Fader. The Crown Fader talks school dances, KBOO and Berbati's over the course of his Hang the DJ installment. Dive in if you dare:More

[UNDERGROUND DANCE] “The Gossip thing is pretty all-consuming,” admits Nathan Howdeshell, known as Brace Paine when playing guitar with the soul-punk icons. “But there's always time to take pictures, do parties and make movies. I can't sit still for very long.”
Between continual continent-hopping, Howdeshell's founded a new electronic music project with Gossip frontw...
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While lately I've been favoring Facebook as a social networking service, MySpace is still tops due to its music players—especially when you stumble upon gems like Nurses' "Technicolor." Lyrically, the four-minute song is a yellow brick road to the past, and there's some magic in the piano pl...
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